These are great. My kids missed out I didn't realize potty training was a cake occation, but we have had cake for so many other occations, First football game of the season, first missing tooth, first E on behavior report card (that was hard for my son), Oh and just because its Sunday cake.

I can get behind the potty training cake and maybe even the jail cake, I mean, felons like cake too right?But the vasectomy? I guess it's the least you can do to make your husband go through that but I don't remember getting a cake when I gave birth so why is he special? I'm not bitter, I promise. ;)

I just realized what a terrible friend I am. How could I NOT have gotten a cake for my friend when she got out of jail??? After barely surviving her own emotional hell for 2 months, I really should have gotten her a cake. Dang.

As for the potty cake (potty,cake, potty cake, baker's man...no?) I think I'd rather just hand the kid a cupcake or something as a reward. There are some things I just can't imagine sharing out loud with enough people to consume that cake.

In re: the vasectomy cake, a friend of mine recently announced his wife's fourth pregnancy and his intention to get a vasectomy pretty much simultaneously. I wonder what the cake at the shower should look like? I'd ask Miss Manners, but she would just say that a fourth baby doesn't get a party simply for happening.

Am I so out of touch that I didn't realize that finally being potty trained calls for cake? I am just a horrible mother I guess. I wish I had gotten a cake for my C-Section. Oh the images that come to mind!...

What is it about the round cakes that makes me want to put my face directly in them? They always seem somehow tastier-looking than the others. Must be a hangup dating back to my first birthday party...

Like kara, I thought it read "fail sentence." So I assumed it was one of those situations where the cake decorator wrote the actual instructions on the cake. Then I wondered what the heck "fail sentence" would mean. Maybe it was a case of bad penmanship? Hmmm. When I realized it was "jail sentence" it didn't seem so ridiculous!

First off wow! People will celebrate just about anything just for the sake of eating cake. I thought about getting a potty cake for my son when he was potty trained but figured it would have been a waste of money since I figured he would have a relapse. Which yes he did LOL. As for the calenders I have the perfect place to have them made and sold plus the owners of this site (if they make them) gets to keep some of the profits from those who buy them. I highly encourage them to check it out:http://www.zazzle.com/create

LOVED the vasectomy cake. I think physicians everywhere who perform vasectomies should provide the vasectomized with a gift certificate for such a cake. Or at least provide a smaller version at discharge from a surgi-center (Along with the obligatory bag of frozen peas!). However, the decor should consist of dying or trapped spermies instead of roses. Much more symbolic and meaningful!

A vasectomy cake! I wish I had thought about that when hubby had the snip earlier this year! I'm notorious for cake occasions at our house (the 6 month old got a half-circle cake for his half birthday, get it?), so a vasectomy cake would have been perfect! I'm with the other poster who got her kids new undies when potty trained, but a cake would have been fun! I'll remember that for next time!

Your blog frequently makes me laugh out loud! I just made a spectacle of myself while doing this in the Barnes and Noble cafe (where I am availing myself of the free WiFi because I still have no phone or electricity thanks to Hurricane Ike).

I'm sorry, but those quotation marks ARE appropriate because "go" is being used ironically. Remember class, what is irony? "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention" Thank you, Mr. Bender, now finish watching Fry's Opera.

See, go being used as a euphemism for bodily evacuation and go used in the nebulous, encouraging sense. (/criticism)

A friend of mine is active in AA. At the end of each month, his group has a birthday cake for those who celebrated "sobriety birthdays" that month. When it was his turn to buy the cake, he had it read: "Happy Birthday Drunks"

I'm going back to see if the fireman cake might have been a better decorative background to use to bare, er, bear the vasectomy message. And does anyone think that "hose" being held by Happy Harriot on the fireman cake represents the common denominator between the jail sentence, the commode and the vasectomy? Lois

I'm thinking these are all thematically related. See, Pete should be congratulated on the vasectomy, because now he won't have any more no-good kids who are destined to be imprisoned. Hm. Not sure how the potty fits into this, though. A little help?

O.k ditto on the whole calendar thing. You Jen, gurl, would be making money hand over fist!Give me a heads up when you make them. (I say when because there is no "if" about that hon! You should make one.) Jen your blog rocks!

To Pam: Keep your head up babe, we're praying for you here at Riverside Chruch in New York and will be sending you guys down there some supplies and such.Good luck!(Free Wi-fi rules, don't it Pam!)

Ok...so the bail cake was mine for my 19th birthday. I feel like I need to share the story.

As was disclosed, it WAS a gag (I was not in jail.)

I was throwing myself a birthday party and thought it would be totally egotistic to order myself a cake that said "Happy Birthday Kyla!" I couldn't possibly dream of going cakeless, so my friends and I brainstormed for the most bizarre cake wish we could think of...we finally picked after going through Dairy Queen's list of images they could ice onto the cake.

We spent much of the party taking pictures and posing behind some prison-bar chairs that I had. It definitely the highlight of the party!

As a side note, I feel like this blog inspires me to go out and purposely try to find wrecks, rather than waste my time with awesome cakes...wrecks are much more fun!

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